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BANK OF CHOSEN

G. Ikeda, manager

LUNGCHINGTSUN-HUNCHUN

DIRECTORY

Police Supt.-K. Suyematsu Chief of Police-C. Kaneko

S. Shiozawa, sub-manager

·CONSULATE―JAPAN

Acting Consul-General

Sakai

Yosakichi

Vice-Consuls-Y. Owaku and S. Kondo Chancellors-K. Yendo, S. Ohta, S.

Takeuichi, G. Masuo, D. Tsuruhara

Marconi

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-U.

Hunchun)

(at

Assistants-P. B. Joly (in charge), M

Itoh

Tidewaiters-P. Blank, I. Sahara

HUNCHUN

春暉

Hunchun is derived from Manchu, meaning frontier, and is situated lat. 42 deg -25 min. 5 sec. N., long. 130 deg. 22 min. 10 sec. E. of Greenwich, on the right bank of the Hung Ch'i Ho, some 35 li from the Chino-Russian frontier and about 90 li distant from Novokiewsk. In 1714 a detachment of soldiers came here from Ninguta, and this may be regarded as the beginning of Hunchun, which was to be opened to trade, by treaty with Japan (Manchurian Convention), in 1905, but the Customs staff did not arrive before December, 1909. The surrounding districts are fairly fertile, and the mining possibilities (coal, gold, and copper) may, when taken in hand, prove of considerable value. Trade, by carts or mules, is conducted with Korea, Japan via Seishin, Ungi, with Russia via Vladivostock, Possiet, Novokiewsk and also with Kirin via Yenchi. The net value of the trade in 1920 was Hk. Tls. 779,283, as compared with Hk. Tls. 964, 548 in 1919. The town (earthen walled) has a population of about 5,000, of whom 139 are Japanese and 501 Koreans. The principal items of export are grain (millet, kaoliang), beans, bean-cake, bean-oil, medicines, ginseng, and timber, and of import, cotton goods, kerosene oil and matches.

With better roads, improved means of communication and greater security from brigands the trade of these districts will, no doubt, cxpand considerably.

DIRECTORY

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner U. Marconi (actg.)

(Hunchun and Lungchingtsun)

Assist. Examiner-E. L. Hallford Tidewaiters-Y.Kidokoro, A. P.Bugaeff Local Watcher-A. Oki

JAPANESE CONSULATE

Acting Consul-General-Y. Sakai (a

Lungchingtsun)

Vice-Consul-K. Sato

Secretary-T. Nakamura

Police Inspector-A. Kuramochi

POST OFFICE

Postal Clerks-T. Omachi and S. Miura

PRIMARY SCHOOL

School-Master-T. Togashi

Teacher-K. Kin